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All the three components have their specific job to perform to enable you view the logs. Here's how it works.
- Fluentd collects the logs from Kubernetes and pushes them to Elastic search.
- Elastic search used for creating creates index doc for all the logs.
- Kibana is looks into the Elastic search and acts as a UI to show the logs.
How we've configured EFK to let the client configure external logging.
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